Kevin West

Semi-final play contiued Friday in Gainesville in the Georgia Games Tennis Tournament.

In a continuing shake-up at the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, four high-ranking officials have resigned after being told they would be fired.

Saturday's championship game at the College World Series will send South Carolina against Texas.

Offensive coordinator Mike Ledford has been named interim football coach at West Georgia to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Gary Otten.

Host nation South Korea has advanced to the semifinals of the World Cup. The South Koreans upset Spain 5-3 in a penalty-kick shootout after a scoreless tie.

A jury awarded $225,000 Friday to a sheriff's deputy who claimed he was libeled by articles in a weekly newspaper following the death of a man who died in the Lowndes County Jail.

State officials believe two state House candidates from Gwinnett County will be Georgia's first Hispanic legislators because no one filed to run against either of them.

A Columbus man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the April 2000 murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend in a jealous rage.

A soldier stationed at Fort Benning was arrested Friday on charges related to the theft of 300 sticks of high-grade explosives from a paving company in Columbus earlier this year.

Some of the nation's busiest airports are in line to get federal security screeners to replace the private employees now checking passengers and carry-on baggage for weapons and bombs.